Lukas Mouka

Lives and works in Toronto, ON, Canada

Artist statement

Opening a door as a symbolic act of a conscious decision to pass through it. To acknowledge a responsibility we have as creators, and co-creators to be aware of the realities we enter into. This body of work is the culmination of a project I've been working on over the past year and a half with the generous help of my first Canada Council grant. It started simply as “ to set out to create a body of work based on the writings of Carl Jung” Jung, his writings and explorations of different cultures, myths, ancient mysticism and his ability to reveal the archetypal distillations behind them all were the inspiration for this project. As well as his work analyzing dreams, treating their expression of the subconscious with equal importance as the conscious, and without forcing any meanings or rational perspectives onto them. The word psychology itself literally meaning the study of the soul. So it became pretty clear after studying Jung and trying to understand his methods and thinking that this project was best served created in his spirit rather than making a body of work just to illustrate his ideas and findings. What I set out to do was to follow inspirations, watch for synchronisities and to listen to and allow dream imagery to come through. Jung's final boss goal for us all is something called individuation, which basically means attaining psychological balance and expression of the dualites of the conscious and unconscious as well as a balance and expression of masculine...

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